Research undertaken by FASD Research Australia CRE supported researchers (including post-docs and PhD students funded by the CRE), and projects led by CRE Investigators or team members which are not funded by the CRE.
Collaborative Projects
In addition, our Investigators and team members have contributed to the following research projects:
- Asking Questions about alcohol in pregnancy (AQUA) (Murdoch Children’s Research Institute) https://www.mcri.edu.au/aquastudy/study-updates
- Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) Teacher and Educational Setting Resources Grant (Matilda Institute)
- Funding to improve the implementation of screening, advice and referral for alcohol use by pregnant women attending public antenatal clinics (Newcastle University)
Supervised Students
Our Investigators and team members have also supervised the following Masters & PhD students.
Submitted and passed
- Improving the management of young people with FASD in detention (Hayley Passmore PhD)
- Talking, hearing, understanding knowing: A qualitative exploration of justice-involved youth undergoing assessment for FASD in a juvenile detention centre (Sharynne Hamilton PhD)
- A neurodevelopmental focused screening tool for young children with FASD (Stewart McDougall PhD)
- The Alert Program Study: development and evaluation of an intervention to improve the self-regulation and executive functioning of Australian Aboriginal primary school children with a focus on FASD (Bree Wagner PhD)
- Young People in detention in Western Australia: An examination of motor skill and the effect of prenatal alcohol exposure (Bernadette Safe Masters)
Current
- Psychosocial determinants of alcohol use in pregnancy: Implications for health promotion messages in Western Australia (Tess Fletcher PhD)
- Communication, fetal alcohol spectrum disorder and youth justice (Natalie Kippin PhD)
- Determinants of prenatal alcohol exposure among Aboriginal women in the Pilbara (David Tucker PhD)
- Diagnosing Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) in Western Australia: Investigating the characteristic profiles of children, adolescents and young adults (Kuen Yee Tan PhD)
- The epigenetic origin of alcohol induced disorders: A cross species study (Mitchell Bestry PhD)